Serving as a collection of poems and poetic prose that were written over the course of four years, this book illustrates the multitude of emotion-loneliness, love, fear, happiness, etc.-as well as the thoughts that I had that shaped who I was as a college student and beyond. I can only hope that as you take this walk down academic row with me, you allow yourself to feel, reflect, laugh, cry, and above all else know that you and your own individual experience-both on this walk, and the walk that we are all taking as living, breathing creatures-is valid.